---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 436.205"
title: "48"
number: "436.205"
heading: "Statutory cost limitations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/436.205"
---

# §436.205. Statutory cost limitations.

- (a) When it appears that funds may be insufficient for all the desired features of construction, the contracting officer may provide in the solicitation for a base bid item covering the work as specified and for one or more additive or deductive bid items which progressively add or omit specified features of the work in a stated order of priority.
- (b) In the alternative, the contracting officer may use the policies and procedures found in FAR 17.2, Options.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 40 U.S.C. 486(c).

### Source

Source: 89 FR 81015, Oct. 7, 2024, unless otherwise noted.